Chapter 42: The Crown Prince Judges the King of Qi and the New Demon Likun
As time passed, Emperor Liu Cheng had been seriously ill for thirty days, and he still did not improve, and he was drowsy in bed every day, unable to wake up for a moment.
These days, the situation is relatively stable, there are no mutinies and other disasters, and the previous rebellion of King Qicheng can no longer be suppressed, and it is time to deal with it.
The ministers have played one after another, and the verification and handling of King Qicheng's charges should be announced as soon as possible, so as to prevent some people with ulterior motives from taking advantage of the topic.
Moreover, the longer an important official of the dynasty who was once crowned king is imprisoned, the more dangerous it is, maybe there are still his comrades in the court, in case of a prison robbery or something, it will be bad.
The prince also felt that it was not a matter to drag it out like this, so he prepared to interrogate King Qi Cheng in the Criminal Department and end the matter as soon as possible.
"Lord Qicheng, the prince has decided to start the trial tomorrow, you have to be more careful!"
"Be careful, it's always just a matter of dying, but thanks to your care for the past few days!"
"Lord Qicheng, this is as it should be, the little one also fought in your battle back then, and he was only sent to this cell as a jailer because he was injured!"
"Oh? You have been in our army, but you have written that I will be tried tomorrow, and you should stay away from me so as not to get burned, they are not good people! ”
There were frequent changes in the imperial army, and it was only normal for some officers and soldiers to be transferred to other posts for special reasons.
The army established in the early days of the imperial dynasty was based on the four kings, constantly expanding and increasing, because the people of the land of Kyushu all advocated force, many people began to enter the court or the various prefectures and counties of the dynasty from the beginning of the army, so most of the people who served as soldiers stayed in the formation of the four kings.
The power of the four kings on the surface is already very large, and some of the connections in the secret are even incomparable to the emperor.
Even if King Qi Cheng entered the cell of the Criminal Department, he was not beaten and scolded in the slightest, and he still ate and drank well every day, this is the relationship between people in the past.
Even several inspectors general of the Criminal Department have some old acquaintances with King Qi Cheng, and they also turn a blind eye to his care, as for Chu Wen, the head of the Criminal Department, he has long been in charge of affairs due to his age, and many things are handled by the four chief inspectors.
The jailer knew that King Qi Cheng's crime was very big, but he didn't believe that he would betray the dynasty, but Mu Chengzhou was a little jailer who could do nothing but say: "My lord! Treasure! ”
The second day soon came, and King Qi Cheng and Lu Zhijie were escorted to the assertion platform for trial. The assertion desk was the highest review body of the Criminal Department and the highest level of the imperial dynasty, and many of the cases tried here were ordered by the emperor himself, and basically matters affecting the imperial dynasty would be dealt with here.
Originally, it was asserted that Li Mingyu, the head of the station, was the official in charge of the interrogation, but this matter was too important, and the prince personally interrogated, and Li Mingyu could only sit next to him as a deputy interrogator.
Basically, the evidence is conclusive, and there is no difficulty, it is just to give King Qicheng a result, so there is no need to cover it up, King Qicheng and Lu Zhijie were detained together in the hall of the assertion platform.
The prince looked at the people under his nose and asked arrogantly, "Down there are King Qicheng and Lu Zhijie!" ”
The two were silent.
The prince waited for a while and found that the two of them ignored him, and said angrily: "You are so bold, can't you see the prince of the current prison dynasty!" How dare you be so rude! ”
The two remained speechless.
"It seems that the two of you are speechless to know that you are ashamed, the dynasty has treated you well for many years, why do you still commit such a disobedient thing as a rebellion, say!"
King Qi Cheng finally looked up at the prince and said: "The matter has come to this point, I have nothing to say, as for why the rebellion, your father and son should be clear, my second brother and I have not been dead and have been imprisoned so far just to see how he will face us and others, who knows that he will not even see him now, no matter what, after all, we are gone!" ”
After King Qi Cheng finished speaking, he glanced at Lu Zhijie beside him, and everything was silent.
The two closed their hearts at the same time and died on the spot.
Although King Qi Cheng has not reached the realm of a great grandmaster and cannot control his qi and blood to cut off his meridians, all junior grandmasters can control their internal organs, and it is still very simple to close their hearts.
This is also considered the glory of a warrior, and you don't have to endure too much torture.
"Dead?" The prince didn't expect this Qicheng King to commit suicide before he could say two words.
The bodies of the two fell in the hall of the Criminal Department, and several officials of the deputy interrogator were at a loss for what to do, looking at each other.
After a long time, the prince cleared his thoughts and said, "Come and check the corpse and carry it down!" ”
Several guards of the Criminal Department hurriedly came up and found that the two were indeed dead, and carried King Qicheng and Lu Zhijie down!
The prince didn't speak, and the people under him didn't know how, Li Mingyu felt that the scene was really a little embarrassing, and asked boldly: "His Royal Highness the Prince, what should I do?" ”
The prince had already come back to his senses and said: "The evidence of King Qicheng and Lu Zhijie's disobedience has been conclusive, and it will be directly announced to the whole country, punished by the nine clans, and wanted by the whole country, and will be executed on the spot once discovered!" ”
"Yes!" Several deputy judges said together.
"By the way, the two sworn brothers of King Qicheng, Qian Yu and Zhou De, are wanted with a reward, 10,000 taels of gold each!"
"Okay, my subordinates will do it later!"
The prince was a little uneasy in his heart, although the two most critical people died, but there were still two fish that slipped through the net, and he was afraid that it would become a disaster in the future.
The death of King Qicheng spread all over the land of Kyushu in an instant, and the famous general committed suicide like this, and many people were full of sighs in their hearts.
The sky stands and does not know the suffering of the world.
King Qi Cheng fought in all directions all his life, and in the end he did not die in the hands of the enemy, but died in the hands of his own people, and boundless misery and remorse floated to the sky of Wushuang City.
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"Big brother! You're still gone! Zhou De stood on a palace built in a mountain, looking at the news he had just received, and his heart was full of thoughts and incomparably sad.
Qian Yu, who was sitting beside him, was also very sad, but he didn't lose his mind, "According to the eldest brother's calculations, they began to speed up, even if he didn't play the role that the eldest brother expected, with our current strength, it should be about the same!" ”
"That's right, big brother, please watch us avenge you, neither violate our oath, nor kill innocents indiscriminately, and seek justice for you with your own hands!"
This palace is very peculiarly built, not big or small, like a building block just stuck in a recess of the peak, the threads are seamed, only a corner of the palace is exposed from the mountain rock.
And that's not even the most peculiar, as far as the eye can see, the entire mountain peak is full of such palaces.
This is not the most peculiar, looking at this side from a distance, one mountain peak after another, and on each peak is such a palace, large and small, of different shapes, all of which are just stuck on the rock wall, ingenious.
The mountains are close by, the palace is strange, and a landscape created by manpower is located on this land.
Qian Yu and Zhou De led the rest of the men and horses through heavy pursuit, and came to this mountain range, I don't know who created this strange scene, only that they have been reborn here, and the mountain is higher than a thousand feet, and it is not easy for people to reach here, let alone chase and intercept it.
It is impossible to estimate how much turmoil the death of King Qicheng caused, and now the entire land of Kyushu has shifted the focus of attention to Wushuang City, first the man in black assassinated the emperor and killed King Doulan, although he was finally killed, but it still caused a lot of impact, followed by the rebellion of King Qicheng, the joint strangulation of the three kings, and a prosperous Yechen Mansion was burned to pieces, killing and injuring millions of people, all of which happened in the body of a prosperous dynasty.
Even a fool can see that there is probably even greater turmoil in the future.
In fact, there is another key reason why the ministers are eager to deal with King Qicheng, that is, King Qicheng was arrested, what should he do with his army, most of the iron curse soldiers have surrendered and have been reclassified into the barracks, but they can't do without the commander, the army of nearly half a million is always a threat, and the tempting rights of the four kings are also remembered.
There is almost no war now, so the new four kings will not have much military merit, such as Qiao Chu, the young man who has just become the four kings, the person who exterminated King Qicheng is the three kings, the power has reached its peak, and there is even nothing to reward, and this vacant throne is debatable.
Many ministers were eager to try and go to the next level, and some prefectural governors spontaneously petitioned and were willing to take on this "drudgery".
The crown prince is not a fool, he knows how important this position is, how powerful it is for him to ascend the throne in the future, and he is thinking about how to take down the position of the king of Qicheng.
The third prince and the sixth prince exerted all their strength to stop the crown prince and launched almost all the relationships, and the court was discussing who would be the new fourth king every day.
Seven days after the prince finished judging King Qicheng, just after the court, Xiao Quanzi came to the prince's side: "His Royal Highness the prince, I don't know if you want to hear a piece of news?" ”
"What's the news?"
"The people of the Three Princes have delivered a message!"
"What?"
"The third prince wants to make a deal with His Highness!"
"Don't talk about it?" The third prince wants to make a deal with himself, and there will be some conspiracy in it, and the prince is a little bored.
Coupled with this little power, the prince directly gave him a kick and kicked him on the ground.
Being kicked every day, Xiao Quan Zi is used to it.
Hurriedly said: "The third prince can make the crown prince a strange king, but he wants a main mansion, it is 'him' himself!" ”
"Huh? Well, this one! ”
The prince calculated in his heart that this was not cost-effective than trading.
"What do you think, little power!"
"The third prince and the other princes can't enter the court is their biggest obstacle, this is also the advantage of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, compared to other things, the third prince will definitely not be able to succeed!"
"What do you mean?"
"But this matter is not a trivial matter, but an upright King Qicheng, not to mention Dingding, I am afraid that he will be a right-hand man in the future, even if the emperor wakes up, he will not move this King Qicheng, we will definitely not suffer!"
The crown prince thought for a moment, "That's right, the four kings are too important, we are forming an army, I didn't expect to send a stronger one so soon!" ”
"That's right, the four kings still have the four strongest armies of the dynasty under their hands, and the three princes are probably confused and are willing to make this deal!"
"Hahaha, God help me!" The prince laughed happily.
"Even if the Iron Spell Soldier is defeated by Long Yu, it is still more than enough to bully the garbage army of the Weitian Army, and the other three kings do not participate in the battle, we can achieve great things with this strange king!"
The crown prince seemed to see his future ascension to the throne of God, and his heart began to swell.